Sven Morlok

Sven Morlok (2013).

Sven Morlok (born May 5, 1962 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 2009 to 2014 he was Saxony's Minister of State for Economy, Labor and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister. From 2004 to 2014 Morlok was also a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Sven Morlok spent his youth in Untergruppenbach . From 1983 to 1985 he completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk in Heilbronn after completing his subject-related university entrance qualification and studied business administration in Mannheim and Dresden from 1985 to 1992 . After graduating as a business graduate, he worked from 1992 to 1996 at the Federal Institute for Unification-Related Special Tasks (BvS) in Dresden. From 1996 to 1999 he was assistant to the management and from 1999 to 2006 managing director of Rohrleitungs- und Anlagenbau GmbH Engelsdorf (RAB, now Nacap GmbH Leipzig) . After taking over a 49 percent stake in Pommer Spezialbetonbau in Leipzig together with his colleague Christian Steinbach in 2007, he was the company's second managing director from 2007 to 2009.

Sven Morlok is a member of the business council of the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises (BVMW) Leipzig and the business convention of the BVMW Saxony.

Sven Morlok is single.

politics

From 1990 to 1993 Sven Morlok was an assessor in the federal board of the Young Liberals and from 1992 to 1993 the state chairman of the Young Liberal Action Saxony . He has been a member of the FDP since 1980 and was a member of the state board of the FDP Saxony from 1999 to 2002 as an assessor and from 2002 to 2009 as treasurer . Since then, as Deputy Prime Minister, he has been a co-opted member of the state board (permanent guest without voting rights). From 2005 to 2011 he was chairman of the FDP Leipzig.

From 2004 to 2009 he was a city councilor in Leipzig. He was re-elected in the 2009 local elections, but did not accept the mandate after being appointed Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister in October 2009. From October 2004 to September 2014 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament, where he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from 2004 to 2009. In 2014 Morlok was re-elected to the City Council of Leipzig. He has been a member of the privateers faction since May 2017.

After the state elections in Saxony in 2009 , Morlok was appointed from the ranks of the FDP in the second Tillich cabinet as the first Saxon State Minister for Economics, Labor and Transport. Since October 1st, 2009 he was one of the representatives of Saxony in the Federal Council . When the FDP left the state parliament in the state elections in Saxony in 2014 , he lost his mandate with the constituent session of the new state parliament. After the formation of the government and the re-election of Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich on November 12, 2014, Morlok resigned from the cabinet and accordingly also from the Federal Council.

Controversy

Morlok during an interview prior to the commissioning of the Leipzig City Tunnel (December 2013)

In February 2010, Morlok announced to Wirtschaftswoche that he had the goal of transforming Saxony from a recipient country into a net donor in the state financial equalization system by 2020 . Joachim Ragnitz of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research described this assessment as “illusory”, and Morlok himself was attacked by the coalition partner for this. Lars Rohwer , budget expert of the CDU Saxony, already described it as "very demanding" to be economically independent in 2019 in view of the existing budget problems in Saxony, and added that "it is not appropriate to raise the bar even higher".

On December 16, 2011, after an appeal by the major Saxon cities and the VCD at MDR Info , Morlok said that the severe cuts in funding for local public transport could be offset by replacing rail with bus transport in the area and by renegotiating the transport contracts with Deutsche Bahn . The VCD working group for local rail transport pointed out that price reductions due to the long-term transport contracts, some of which were concluded for ten years, were not possible and questioned Morlok's expertise in the field of local public rail transport. Morlok is also accused earmarked for subsidizing public transport regionalization funds reallocate the federal to the additional costs in the construction of Leipzig City Tunnel gegenzufinanzieren.

Web links

Commons : Sven Morlok  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Own homepage
• Sven Morlok on the side of the state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Young Liberal Action Saxony , accessed on April 21, 2011
2. ↑ Rubbing against the status quo: Leipzig FDP elects Holger Krahmer as chairman , accessed on December 5, 2011
3. ↑ Meeting participants. Retrieved January 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Morlok: Saxony wants to be the donor country in 2020  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 11, 2010  
5. ↑ Free Press of February 11, 2010: Disgruntlement in the black and yellow government over the liberal donor country vision
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ralf Julke: Saxony's Transport Minister defends his cuts: Greens and leftists see Morlok on the siding , December 17, 2011. Accessed on January 2, 2012.
7. ↑ Transport Minister Morlok fails to understand the connections in local transport . Press release VCD Elbe-Saale, December 19, 2011. Accessed January 2, 2012.